Incident Reports
Five persons including two injured as police charge batons at clash between two groups in Dailekh during vote counting
2022-05-16
Dilmaya Shahil of Narayan Municipality-7 along with two journalists were injured after police charged baton to control a clash between two group of youths before the office of chief election officer of Dailekh on May 16. The journalists and general public who were waiting for information regarding vote counting fell prey to police action after they rampantly charged batons. According to DPO Dailekh, two security personnel from APF and Police sustained injury after being hit with stones pelted by the youths.
Mahendra Sapkota, vice president of Federation of Nepali Journalists, Dailekh and Bhim Bahadur Sijapati, working at Radio Nepal were injured in the incident. The injured treated at the local health post. According to the District Police Office, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force were also injured in the incident.
Details and Impacts
| Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
| Onesided / Twosided | Onesided |
| Collective / Interpersonal | Interpersonal |
| Primary Form | Group Clash |
| Weapons | Blunt weapon |
| Primary Cause | Election-related incident |
| Secondary Cause | Contestation regarding the outcome of election |
| Actor 1 - Number of people | n/a |
| Actor 1 - Affiliations | Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation |
| Actor 1 - Youth | unknown |
| Actor 2 - Number of people | n/a |
| Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) | Other/multiple/unspecified political affiliation |
| Actor 2 - Youth | unknown |
| Total Injured | 5 |
| Female Injured | 1 |
